President Jacob Zuma’s nephew Khulubuse Zuma is said still to be living in SA, but in such a financially constrained situation he cannot afford legal representation to defend an application for his sequestration. This contradicts an earlier report from Solidarity — the trade union that has been pursuing the rights of more than 200 of its members to receive salaries due from the liquidated Pamodzi Gold group — that Zuma was believed to have taken up permanent residence in the United Arab Emirates. Solidarity general secretary Gideon du Plessis said this had been the report from tracking agents employed by the attorneys to the liquidators, after Zuma could not be traced through his spokesman Vuyo Mkhize or attorneys who had acted for him in the settlement agreement with the liquidators. Zuma was the chairman of Aurora Empowerment Systems, which agreed to buy the Orkney and Grootvlei mines from Pamodzi Gold but instead, while managing the assets on an interim arrangement, stripped them...

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